{"id":9337,"date":"2021-04-16T23:16:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T23:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9337"},"modified":"2021-04-16T23:16:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T23:16:47","slug":"update-on-the-eruption-in-fagradalsfjall-mountain-on-16-april-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9337","title":{"rendered":"Update on the eruption in Fagradalsfjall mountain on 16-April-2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short update on the eruption in Fagradalsfjall mountain in <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk-Tr\u00f6lladyngja<\/a> volcano system.<\/p>\n<p>There has not been any major change since last update. In this week four new craters started erupting and I write an article about that earlier in this week for more details.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was reported today (16-April-2021) that lava has now started to flow outside of Geldingadalir and to the east. This lava is now flowing over a walking path that people used to get close to the eruption. Getting close to the eruption might not be possible any more. There is also a chance that lava is going to is going to flow to the south of the craters more than it already has done.<\/li>\n<li>Swarm of small earthquakes took place north-east in Fagradalsfjall mountain early morning around 06:00 UTC. Largest of those earthquakes had a magnitude of Mw2,8.<\/li>\n<li>There is no sign of the eruption ending.<\/li>\n<li>There continues to be a high risk of new vents opening up and start erupting without warning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are no more reports this week outside of what I did write about what was happening earlier in the week. If anything major happens I am going to post an update soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short update on the eruption in Fagradalsfjall mountain in Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk-Tr\u00f6lladyngja volcano system. There has not been any major change since last update. In this week four new craters started erupting and I write an article about that earlier in this week for more details. It was reported today (16-April-2021) that lava has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9337\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update on the eruption in Fagradalsfjall mountain on 16-April-2021&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,10,215,34,204,71,170,214,17,89,213,37,219,82,64,40,23,65,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-eruption","category-eruptions","category-fagradalsfjall","category-fissures","category-gas","category-geldingadalur","category-gps-data","category-gps-monitoring","category-keilir","category-krysuvik","category-krysuvik-trolladyngja","category-lava","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes-ridge","category-rift-zone","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9339,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions\/9339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}